I spent a week by the pool in Egypt with my girlfriend, relaxing and…hacking. The lack of WiFi meant I had to rely on instinct and intellect to get me through my pet project and it proved a worthy exercise … Continue reading
So being a functional programming fan I ventured into the JDK 8 binaries and started playing with the myriad of changes relating to the introduction of Lambdas in JDK 8. All my code’s now on github and it’s work in … Continue reading
Whilst many will frown at the use of the final keyword in Java code, I find it a breath of fresh air. Perhaps it’s that I tend to lean on the side of caution, conservatism and safety when it comes … Continue reading
Like hundreds of others I bet, I purchased an upgrade personal license for Intellij IDEA 12 in their “end of world” sale. I’d heard good things about this latest version, most importantly significant improvements in the area of performance. I … Continue reading
Clojure’s atoms let one transactionally and atomically store values. When one uses an atom, Clojure manages the mutation of the value and guarantees atomicity. Such a feature is very useful in a highly concurrent application. Much like Java’s Atomic* classes, … Continue reading
We’ve all had the emails. X is broken in live. Blah blah blah the stack trace is: NullPointerException … Sigh you may. Curse the juniors perhaps. Neglect not the fact that these beauties pay your bills…
I made a schoolboy error. I ventured down the road named “Thinking your tools are broken instead of your code”. I haven’t done that in years. There’s nothing wrong with the Findbugs plugin for Maven. If you want to scan … Continue reading
I cannot seem to get onlyAnalyze working for my multi-module project: regardless of what package (or pattern) I set, maven-findbugs-plugin either parses everything or nothing and it doesn’t evaluate sub-packages as I’d expect from passing it packagename.*. To prove either … Continue reading
The Problem Do you have lack of consistency and understanding how your software is built? Does this equal varying degrees of success – both in each build and in changing or adding new features to it – and lack of … Continue reading
I strongly believe that if you want to build awesome software, then every aspect of it needs to be as good as you want the final product to be. It is often the case that aged software shops will have … Continue reading